Blog entries

Plácido Domingohas decided to retire the role of Conte di Luna from his repertoire and has therefore cancelled all respective performances in Berlin, Milan and Salzburg. Fortunately, it will still be possible to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Plácido Domingo’s Salzburg debut with a gala concert at the Festival.

Today, Helga Rabl-Stadler has held the office of President of the Salzburg Festival for exactly 20 years. Her current contract runs until the end of 2017, and in her last year she will share the running of the Salzburg Festival with the designated Artistic Director Markus Hinterhäuser, who begins his tenure in 2016/17. Until then, she will lead the Festival together with the Director of Drama, Sven-Eric Bechtolf, on an interim basis.

International Release:
January 19, 2015 will see the worldwide release of Grigory Sokolov’s recital featuring works by Mozart and Chopin, which was recorded at the Salzburg Festival in 2008 and is being released by DGG as part of the SALZBURG FESTIVAL DOCUMENTS edition. It is the first concert the pianist has permitted to be published in more than 20 years, having signed an exclusive recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon this past October.

What unites Cleopatra, Norma, Cenerentola and Iphigénie? Cecilia Bartoli creates studies of moving fates with passion. An interview with Cecilia Bartoli about her role debut in the title role of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride.

We wish all the Salzburg Festival’s friends and guests a peaceful Christmas with your family and a good start to the New Year!
We would also like to point out that you can submit your ticket orders for the summer festival until January 7. All orders received by this deadline will be treated as equal. Why not use the holidays to peruse the programme and let the Ticket Office know your wishes – either online, via email to info@salzburgfestival.at or by mail to the Salzburg Festival Ticket Office, Herbert von Karajan Platz 11, P.O. Box 140, 5020 Salzburg, Austria.

The Salzburg Festival looks forward to sharing a new and fascinating year with you!

The Salzburg Festival regrets to announce that Luc Bondy finds himself unable to direct the production of Wolfgang Rihm’s Die Eroberung von Mexico for reasons of scheduling as well as personal ones. At the same time, we are happy to announce that we have been able to convince Peter Konwitschny to take on this production as director.

During the hectic days preceding Christmas, the contemplative and devout sounds of Christmas music offer us a space for inner peace and harmony. Sacred and atmospheric sounds also await our visitors at the Ouverture spirituelle, part of the 2015 Salzburg Festival.

Today, Festival President Helga Rabl-Stadler presented the 2015 programme of the Salzburg Festival in Beijing. Journalistic interest in China was greater than ever: more than 70 journalists had come to Audi City Beijing in order to receive first-hand information about Salzburg.

In Shanghai, Helga Rabl-Stadler gave insights into the Festival programme to more than one hundred invited guests of the main sponsor ROLEX on Tuesday of this week. The guests passed through an atmosphere-rich replica of the Hofstallgasse in Salzburg constructed by ROLEX into the ballroom of the Hotel Peninsula in Shanghai. The opera star Ildar Abdrazakov flew in from St. Petersburg and was accompanied by Alessandro Misciasci in arias by Mozart, Rakhmaninov and Verdi. In the summer of 2015 he will appear in Salzburg in Giuseppe Verdi’s Ernani under the baton of Riccardo Muti. The Festival’s partnership with ROLEX began in 2012. Its contract as global sponsor of the Salzburg Festival and exclusive sponsor of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival runs until 2021.